Jean-Luc Gaudiot

Jean-Luc Gaudiot is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He earned a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Électronique et Électrotechnique (Paris, France) in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Prior to joining UCI in January 2002, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Earlier in his career, he held research and development positions at Teledyne Controls (1979–1980) and the TRW Technology Research Center (1980–1982). As Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCI, he led a period of significant growth, including the recruitment of twelve new faculty members, resulting in a substantial rise in national rankings.

Professor Gaudiot’s research interests include the programmability of parallel systems, hardware-based computer security, and autonomous driving systems. He has authored nearly 300 refereed journal and conference publications. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, DARPA, and numerous industrial sponsors.

He has provided extensive service to the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society. He served as President of the IEEE Computer Society in 2017, leading the Society through a period of fundamental organizational reforms that strengthened its financial position and strategic engagement with emerging technologies. At the IEEE level, he chaired the TAB Ad Hoc Committee on the Multiple Society Discount Program (2021–2022), promoting inter-society collaboration by instituting incentives for participation in multiple societies and OUs. He co-founded Computer Architecture Letters and the IEEE Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques Conference. Most recently, he co-chaired the 2025 International Symposium on Computer Architecture, which achieved record participation of more than 1,200 attendees.

He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1999 and an AAAS Fellow in 2007.